Lady Vanishes (1938): Criterion Collection (Blu-ray, 2011) BRAND NEW and SEALED!

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Lady Vanishes (1938): Criterion Collection (Blu-ray, 2011) BRAND NEW and SEALED!. The Criterion Collection issued the film on LaserDisc in 1989, followed by a DVD release in 1998. Criterion reissued the film on DVD in 2007 featuring a new restoration, which was later released on Blu-ray in 2011. Offered with this listing – in BRAND NEW and SEALED Condition – is the 2011 Criterion Collection Blu-ray release of the 1938 Gainsborough Pictures / Gaumont-British Picture Corporation / Twentieth Century-Fox film “The Lady Vanishes” . PLEASE NOTE : That this is the original production of this title from 1938 and IS NOT either of the two subsequent adaptations of the same name released in 1979 and 2013. The feature is directed by Alfred Hitchcock (who is film royalty – we simply don’t have the room to list his accomplishments, much less all the films he has been involved in, so please consult Wikipedia or another online source for complete information and his filmography) from a screenplay by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder based on the 1936 novel “The Wheel Spins” by Ethel Lina White. The film stars Margaret Lockwood (as Iris Matilda Henderson), Michael Redgrave (as Gilbert Redman), Paul Lukas (as Dr. Egon Hartz), (Dame) May Whitty (as Miss Froy), Cecil Parker (as Mr. Eric Todhunter), Linden Travers (as “Mrs.” Todhunter), Naunton Wayne (as Caldicott), Basil Radford (as Charters), Mary Clare (as Baroness Athona), Emile Boreo (as Hotel Manager), Googie Withers (as Blanche), Sally Stewart (as Julie), Philip Leaver (as Signor Doppo), Selma Vaz Dias (as Signora Doppo), Catherine Lacey (as The Nun), Josephine Wilson (as Madame Kummer), Charles Oliver (as the Officer), and Kathleen Tremaine (as Anna). “The Lady Vanishes” is a British mystery thriller film about an English tourist (Lockwood) travelling by train in continental Europe who discovers that her elderly travelling companion (Whitty) seems to have disappeared from the train. After her fellow passengers deny ever having seen the elderly lady, the young woman is helped by a young musicologist (Redgrave), the two proceeding to search the train for clues to the old lady’s disappearance. “The Lady Vanishes” was filmed at the Gainsborough Studios in Islington, London. It was the first feature film released under a distribution deal between the British Gaumont-British Picture Corporation and the American Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) under a joint agreement in which MGM provided half of the film’s funding as well as handling its theatrical release in the UK. Hitchcock caught Hollywood’s attention with the film and moved to Hollywood soon after its release. Although the director’s three previous efforts had done poorly at the box office, “The Lady Vanishes” was widely successful, and confirmed American producer David O. Selznick’s belief that Hitchcock indeed had a future in Hollywood cinema. The British Film Institute ranked “The Lady Vanishes” the 35th best British film of the 20th century. In 2017, a poll of 150 actors, directors, writers, producers, and critics for “Time Out” magazine saw it ranked the 31st best British film ever. It is one of Hitchcock’s most renowned British films, and the first of three screen versions of White’s novel as of this writing. “The Lady Vanishes” was originally called “The Lost Lady”, and Irish director Roy William Neill was assigned by producer Edward Black to make it. A crew was dispatched to Yugoslavia to do background shots, but when the Yugoslav police accidentally discovered that they were not well-portrayed in the script, they kicked the crew out of the country, and Black scrapped the project. A year later, Hitchcock could not come up with a property to direct to fulfil his contract with Black, so he accepted when Black offered “The Lost Lady” to him. “The Lady Vanishes” is copyrighted worldwide. Hitchcock’s British films were public domain in the United States for a while which resulted in their being heavily bootlegged on home video. Despite this, various licensed releases have appeared on Blu-ray, DVD, and video on demand worldwide. The Criterion Collection issued the film on LaserDisc in 1989, followed by a DVD release in 1998. Criterion reissued the film on DVD in 2007 featuring a new restoration, which was later released on Blu-ray in 2011. * * * * * CONDITION: Each item offered is in pristine-to-mint condition, meaning there are no obvious defects to the item itself, there are no holes or tears to the factory shrink-wrap, and there are no loose discs. The ONLY noise perhaps heard upon gently shaking the item from side-to-side should be nothing more than included art cards or other inserts. All discs should be securely on their hubs unless otherwise noted. 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